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Comparative studies in Perception of Patient safety culture of Nurses and Dental hygienist (간호사와 치위생사의 환자안전문화 인식수준 비교연구)

  • Kim, Mi-Young;Kim, Young-Mi
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.5196-5205
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: The Purpose of this study were to compare the level of perception and to identify factors associated with perception on patient safety culture by nurses and hygienists. Method: The data were collected from september to December, 2010 using Hospital survey on patient safety culture questionnaires. The subjects were 399 Nurses, hygienists, recruited from the hospital in Busan & Kyungnam. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviation, t-test and ANOVA, Spearman rank coefficient. Result: The perception level of nurses on patient safety culture was 3.48. In case of hygienists, the level was 3.51. Compared to nurses, hygienists showed a significantly difference on the items "Staff arrangement"(t=2.841, p<.01) and "Administator attitude"(t=-2.471, p<.05), "Feedback and communication in accident"(t=-3.356, p<.01). Nurses and hygienists' age and career, working hour per week were identified as factor associated with patient safety culture. Conclusion: The perception level of hospital health providers on patient safety culture was moderate. and identified factors associated with patient safety culture were age and career, working hour per week.

Characteristics of Chaff Echoes Observed by X-band Dual Polarization Radar (X-밴드 이중편파레이더에서 관측된 채프에코의 특성)

  • Seo, Eun-Kyoung;Park, Sora;Nam, Kyung-Yeub;Heo, Sol-Ip
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2013
  • To effectively remove chaff echoes, which are often misidentified as precipitation echoes on weather radars, this study examines the relationship between the radar reflectivity and each of dual polarimetric parameters. The dual polarimetric parameters are collected only for the echo areas identified as chaff echoes on the NIMR X-band dual polarization radar. Overall, the polarimetric parameters (i.e., reflectivity, differential reflectivity, cross correlation coefficient, standard deviation of differential reflectivity and specific differential phase) for chaff echoes have a wider range of values than those for precipitation echoes and the chaff filaments tend to be horizontally oriented to radar beams. There appears to be a considerable overlap in the cross correlation coefficient range of chaff and precipitation echoes since some precipitation echoes have cross correlation coefficient lower than 0.8. Therefore, although the cross correlation coefficient is known to be a good variable in identifying and separating chaff echoes from precipitation echoes, it is suggested that additional care should be taken when using the cross correlation coefficient solely in removing chaff echoes.

Development of a Spectrum Analysis Software for Multipurpose Gamma-ray Detectors (감마선 검출기를 위한 스펙트럼 분석 소프트웨어 개발)

  • Lee, Jong-Myung;Kim, Young-Kwon;Park, Kil-Soon;Kim, Jung-Min;Lee, Ki-Sung;Joung, Jin-Hun
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2010
  • We developed an analysis software that automatically detects incoming isotopes for multi-purpose gamma-ray detectors. The software is divided into three major parts; Network Interface Module (NIM), Spectrum Analysis Module (SAM), and Graphic User Interface Module (GUIM). The main part is SAM that extracts peak information of energy spectrum from the collected data through network and identifies the isotopes by comparing the peaks with pre-calibrated libraries. The proposed peak detection algorithm was utilized to construct libraries of standard isotopes with two peaks and to identify the unknown isotope with the constructed libraries. We tested the software by using GammaPro1410 detector developed by NuCare Medical Systems. The results showed that NIM performed 200K counts per seconds and the most isotopes tested were correctly recognized within 1% error range when only a single unknown isotope was used for detection test. The software is expected to be used for radiation monitoring in various applications such as hospitals, power plants, and research facilities etc.

Breast cancer screening rates-related factors Korea women ever considering area environmental characteristics: The fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey(KNHANES IV) (지역 환경적 요인이 한국 여성의 유방암 조기검진 수검률에 미치는 영향 : 국민건강영양조사 제 4기를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Mi-Hwa;Kim, Sang-Hyun
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.437-449
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    • 2014
  • In this study, we analyzed an effect of area-environmental factor on breast cancer screening rates using multi-level analysis. It was intended for the KNHANES-IV. Total subjects were 14338. Among them, 4143 subjects met the inclusion criteria. When we applied only empty Model, a variance of breast cancer screening rates was 0.061 in each region. When we applied Model with individual level variables, the variance was 0.034. However, when we applied both Model with individual level variables and Model with area level variables, the variance was 0.023. We drew applied only individual level variables parallel applied 3 regional variances which could explain variance of inspection of breast cancer up to 18.04% compared with applied only individual level variables. Area level variables could reduce a variance of region. This means besides individual level variables. The group can share a same thing and can effect to breast cancer screening rates. We need to discover factors which area level variables and suggest that make a standard for inspection of breast cancer.

Factors Related to Smartphone Dependence among Adults in Their 20s (20대 성인의 스마트폰 의존 관련 요인)

  • Park, Jeong-Hye
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.195-204
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to explore factors associated with smartphone dependence among adults in their 20s. The data were derived from the 2017 Survey on Smartphone Over-dependence conducted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency. There were 3,684 participants. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, independent t-test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and weighted hierarchical multiple regression analysis. For the results, factors related with higher smartphone dependence of participants were duration (β=.18, p=.000) and frequency (β=.04, p=.000) of usage, gaming (β=.15, p=.000), watching videos (β=.09, p=.000), mobile shopping (β=.05, p=.000), working (β=.05, p=.010), e-mailing (β=.13, p=.000), and sports betting (β=.07, p=.000). Music (β=-.07, p=.000) and adult content (β=-.07, p=.000) significantly reduced their smartphone dependence. SNS (Social Networking Services) (β=.01, p=.358) and instant messengers (β=-.02, p=.330) were not factors related to smartphone dependence. However, instant messengers were the most used by participants and had a strong correlation with working (r=.55, p=.000). This study shows that smartphone usage patterns related with smartphone dependence among adults in their 20s are different from those of children and adolescents. These results could be used to more deeply understand smartphone dependence among adults in their 20s and plan early detection and prevention and care of dependence.

Supporting XML Materialized Views Using Materialized Views of RDBMS (관계 DBMS의 실체뷰 기능을 이용한 XML 실체뷰 지원)

  • Kim, Seung-Hun;Kang, Hyun-Chul
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.33-48
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    • 2006
  • Since the emergence of XML as the standard for data exchange on the Web, XML warehousing technology is required to efficiently support Web business applications such as e-Commerce. When the RDBMS is employed as the storage for XML warehouse, XML materialized views of the XML warehouse could be provided by leveraging the materialized views of the RDBMS Because XML documents are mapped into relational tuples, an XML query defining an XML materialized view needs to be transformed into SQL. If relational materialized views were defined with the transformed SQL statements, the XML materialized view could be obtained just by XML-tagging the tuples of the corresponding relational materialized views. The foremost advantage of such a scheme is that the RDBMS does take care of XML materialized view consistency except XML tagging whenever their source XML documents are updated. In this paper, we proposed such a scheme of providing XML materialized views, and implemented it using a commercial RDBMS equipped with materialized view facility in Java on Windows 2000 Professional environment. XML documents in TPC-W, Web e-Commerce Benchmark, were used in performance experiments. The experimental results showed that our proposed scheme for XML materialized views was very effective.

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The Influence of Ego-resilience and Psychological Well-being on Job Stress of Childcare Teachers (보육교사의 자아탄력성과 심리적 안녕감이 직무스트레스에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Lee Jin;Hong, Yeon Ae
    • Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.55-74
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    • 2013
  • This study examined the influence of ego-resilience and psychological well-being on job stress in childcare teachers. The participants were 192 childcare teachers in Seoul and Daejeon Metropolitan City. The research instruments were Ego-Resilience by Park(1996), Psychological well-being by Kim(2008), and Job Stress by Hong(2009). Collected data were analysed by descriptive statistics(frequency analysis, mean, & standard deviation) and multiple regression, and Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ for reliability by SPSS PC program. The results were as follows: First, Childcare teachers' perceived ego-resilience was higher than average. Childcare teachers' perceived psychological well-being was higher than average. Childcare teachers' perceived job stress was lower than average. Second, Childcare teachers' perceived ego-resilience and psychological well-being was having significant influences on childcare teachers' perceived job stress. Optimistic thinking and anger control among sub-factors of childcare teachers' perceived ego-resilience and environmental mastery among sub-factors of childcare teachers' perceived psychological well-being explained 46% of variance in childcare teachers' perceived job stress. These results provide informations for reducing job stress in childcare teacher and suggest the basis of an education program for childcare teacher.

Differences between Critical thinking Disposition and Clinical practice according to Satisfaction for Nursinga Practice (간호학 만족도에 따른 비판적 사고성향과 임상수행능력의 변화)

  • Seo, Ji Yeong;Choi, Eun Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.113-119
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    • 2020
  • This study examined the effects of stepwise education for operation patient care according to nursing satisfaction on the critical thinking disposition and clinical performance. The participants were 192 junior students who signed a consent form with an explanation of the study. Data were obtained from the students on the first day of junior's first semester and the last day of junior's first and second semester. Data analysis was performed using the number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square test, t-test, and repeated measure ANOVA through the SPSS/WIN 23.0 program. Results showed that nursing students with high nursing satisfaction had higher critical thinking disposition than those with lower nursing satisfaction (F=4.57, p=.012). There were no significant differences according to time (F=0.20, p=.821). The clinical performance was not significantly different according to nursing satisfaction (F=1.08, p=.343) and time (F=1.58, p=.210). This means that increasing nursing satisfaction would be a strategy for increasing the critical thinking disposition that was the core competency of nursing students.

A Study on the Perception of Communication Between Doctors and Nurses in Advanced General Hospital (상급 종합병원 내 의사, 간호사 간 의사소통 인식에 대한 조사연구)

  • Yoo, Mi-Ja
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2022
  • This study is a descriptive research study to understand the level of communication awareness between doctors and nurses, who are professional medical professionals, and the detailed areas and satisfaction of communication. Data were collected from 372 doctors and nurses at general hospitals located in C city from March to May 2021. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, and correlation analysis, using the SPSS/WIN 20.0 program. As a result, there was a difference in the awareness level of communication between doctor and nurse groups. Specifically, out of the detailed areas of communication recognized by doctors and nurses, there were statistically significant differences in openness(t=9.91), mutual understanding between occupations(t=5.25), and satisfaction(t=8.13) between the two groups. In addition, a positive correlation was found between the detailed areas and the communication satisfaction in both groups, showing that nurses have higher communication satisfaction with the higher openness(r=.72, p<.001), mutual understanding between occupations(r=.71, p<.001) and similarly, doctors also have higher communication satisfaction with the higher mutual understanding between occupations(r=.79, p<.001), timeliness(r=.73, p<.001). Therefore, these result suggest that it is necessary to develop a communication program that can effectively improve the weak areas such as mutual understanding between occupations and openness in nurses and doctors in order to ensure patient safety and provide quality medical care.

A Study on Relevant Range of Vertical vertical grade at Urban Intersections (도시부 평면교차로의 종단경사 적정범위 도출 연구)

  • Yoon, Byoung-Jo;Jung, Jae-Hoon;Kim, Jin-Han
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.187-192
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    • 2015
  • In general, design of urban intersections are fundamentally different from rural intersections, but current urban intersection design has been appled to rural standards. This study has suggested the design standard for urban intersection grades based on the existing literature, field investigating and comparative analysis. Moreover, this study analyzes and compares the differences between urban and rural intersections, and intersections have been derived by appropriate design standards after reviewing the domestic and international grades design criteria. Site survey was performed to validate the derived design criteria by analyzing statistically to establish the design standards. Results were produced for the intersection portion grade standards by comparing the number of instructions which produced appropriate slope degree from 2.5% to 3% in normal condition and slope can be extended to 5% in some critical cases. In-situ investigation was performed to validate the produced data where slope was found from 0.0~8.6%. Additional data of accident analysis were also collected for the validation of the suggested data and correlation analysis was performed using the SPSS tool. Data were analyzed statistically using 95% significance level for vehicle-to-vehicle collided, head-on collision accident rates, where accident rates significantly correlated with the grade. Therefore, appropriate grade at the intersection should be designed and applied in order to reduce the number of accidents at the intersection. Finally, appropriate grades for urban intersections are suggested from 1-3% for normal cases and grades could extend up to 5% for unavoidable cases where extra care must be taken when designing.